From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 22 13: 5: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B140D14D6A for ; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:05:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id NAA27847; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:01:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id MAA01705; Wed, 22 Sep 1999 12:48:05 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn4.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA28303; Wed, 22 Sep 99 12:59:49 PDT Message-Id: <37E93534.1A0D164F@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 13:59:48 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Robey Cc: Alfred Perlstein , "Daniel C. Sobral" , Ivan , Matthew Dillon , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Out of swap handling and X lockups in 3.2R References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Chuck Robey wrote: > > What kind of resources are there that both cause loss of swap AND are > freed up by sleeping a process? Any of them being consumed by short-lived processes that will run to completion and exit while everyone else is sleeping. This assumes such processes exist, of course. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message